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    It was 60 years ago the world was left reeling when US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he travelled in an open top car with his wife Jackie on a trip to Dallas, Texas. <\/p>\n

    But ever since that fateful day on November 22, 1963, exactly what happened – and why – has been hotly debated and conspiracy theories have spun out of control.<\/p>\n

    An official 1964 investigation into who killed the 46-year-old President, titled The Warren Commission, identified 24-year-old ex-marine Oswald as Kennedy\u2019s lone assassin but that doesn't seem to have appeased everyone, with some people instead opting to belive that Kennedy was slain as part of an elaborate plan to cover up the existence of aliens. Yes, really. <\/p>\n

    READ MORE: 'My CIA pal Jerrie led double life and was key to JFK murder \u2013 they won't release her file'<\/b><\/p>\n

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    The Daily Star asked Google Bard, the artificial intelligence chatbot, what it thought about the more out there theories and why they exist. It said that conflicting witness accounts and shady investigations inspired the madness. <\/p>\n

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    "There are a number of reasons why conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination have persisted for so long. One factor is the sheer complexity of the event, with many witnesses and conflicting accounts," it said.<\/p>\n

    "Additionally, the Warren Commission's investigation was criticized for its lack of transparency and for its failure to address certain key questions."<\/p>\n

    Some of the conspiracy theories are more believable, like for example the CIA or the Cubans having a hand in it. <\/p>\n

    And Google Bard reckons that out of all the theories listed, the 'second shooter' suspicion is the most plausible. <\/p>\n

    "Several factors support the second gunman theory," it said. Firstly, the acoustic analysis of the Zapruder film, one of the most comprehensive visual records of the assassination, suggests that three shots were fired, not two as the Warren Commission concluded. <\/p>\n

    "This aligns with the testimonies of multiple witnesses who reported hearing three distinct gunshots," it added. <\/p>\n

    It added that the bullet trajectory raised suspicion, as did the presence of unidentified figures on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, where the President was gunned down.<\/p>\n

    Some theories, however, are a tad more wild – and here we take a run through the weirdest of them.<\/p>\n

    A UFO cover up <\/h3>\n

    An extreme conspiracy theory is that JFK was killed to stop him finding out about UFOs, having been shot 10 days after allegedly sending a secret memo to the CIA demanding to know the truth.<\/p>\n

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    The top secret memo was supposedly written on November 12, 1963. In it the president ordered the CIA director to collate the agency's intelligence files relating to UFOs, and to debrief him on all "unknowns" by the following February. <\/p>\n

    Authorities were rattled, thinking that the president might have informed the American public about any alien findings, an author on the subject has claimed.<\/p>\n

    "If Kennedy had gotten some level of control of this issue from NASA or the CIA, who's to say he wouldn't have disclosed that information to the American public? Who knows where that would have led?" William Lester said.<\/p>\n